Sierra Club BC is pleased to recommend the hot new documentary Damnation, screened at the DOXA film festival on May 3 and May 8.

DamNation is rich with stories of lost landscapes, environmental battles fought and lost, as well as the increasing pressure that different organizations are bringing to bear on reclaiming rivers. The film’s most hilarious moment easily belongs to the artist/activist whose ambitious drive to paint giant cracks down the middle of some of the largest dams in the US, was almost his undoing. But in the end, even the authorities admire his artistic audacity. As the filmmakers paddle their way upstream, they run into police roadblocks and even more insidious problems. But when one dam actually does come tumbling down, the sweet release of all that water, so long trapped and stilled, feels like more than catharsis, it feels like a revolution.